Some universities offer online courses as an alternative to classes delivered on campus.
Do you think this is a positive or negative development?
Online courses have been taught in some universities as alternative to traditional classes for a while now. Although it has some negative effects, I believed that it is a positive development from conventional methods of learning.
First, studying online can give a student a flexible time. Unlike conventional classes where we have to follow a strict schedule, classes that are offered online are adjustable depending on our time. This can be good for working students as they can opt to take their courses after their work time. Second, there is no need for a personal appearance during a study session which means that we can attend wherever we are. There are some courses that are only taught in some universities that could mean that a student should transfer to a place near that school or just give up the course. Through online courses though, this will not be a problem as we can take the course even if we're abroad. Third, as some institutions offer online classes, they can minimize the number of students in a coming in and out of campuses, thus reducing other expenses, such as food allowance on cafeteria and water bills, as well.
However, there are some drawbacks to this method. Classes taught online are often low in quality than traditional classes and may lack credentials from accrediting agencies like the Department of Education. Moreover, inadequacy of required equipment like computers, high internet bandwidth, and relevant technical skills of both the teacher and student may hamper the success of online studying. What is more, there is little or no interaction at all in this type of learning.
In conclusion, online learning is a huge development from our traditional learning methods and may be more beneficial in the future if some of its flaws will be eliminated or at least, reduced.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, may, moreover, second, so, third, thus, well, while, at least, in conclusion, such as, what is more
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 13.1623246493 137% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 7.85571142285 178% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 24.0651302605 104% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 41.998997996 86% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1532.0 1615.20841683 95% => OK
No of words: 304.0 315.596192385 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03947368421 5.12529762239 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17559525986 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7510366184 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 176.041082164 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.559210526316 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 485.1 506.74238477 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.146438823 49.4020404114 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.428571429 106.682146367 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7142857143 20.7667163134 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.5 7.06120827912 120% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.273640330187 0.244688304435 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0973881665919 0.084324248473 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0645554199258 0.0667982634062 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.172227098388 0.151304729494 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.091587088268 0.056905535591 161% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 13.0946893788 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 12.4159519038 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.37 8.58950901804 97% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 78.4519038076 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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